RE: Fingering padding with accidentals

[Nick Payne]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Neil Puttock [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Tuesday, 31 March 2009 07:07
> To: Nick Payne
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: Fingering padding with accidentals
> 
> 2009/3/30 Nick Payne <address@hidden>:
> > The padding that is applied to fingering on the left when there is an
> > accidental is greater than when there is no accidental. From my
> measurements
> > it seems to default to 0.5 staff units from a note but 0.7 units from
> an
> > accidental, which looks odd to me. Is it possible to reduce the
> default
> > padding from accidentals without having to issue a tweak for every
> > occurrence and without changing the padding when there is no
> accidental?
> 
> Your measurements are accurate. :)
> 
> The padding between fingerings and accidentals is the sum of Fingering
> #'padding (0.5) and AccidentalPlacement #'left-padding (0.2).
> 
> This should produce the same effect as your tweak:
> 
> \relative c' {
>   \set fingeringOrientations = #'(left)
>   \override Staff.AccidentalPlacement #'left-padding = #0
>   <f-2 e'-3>4 <fis-2 eis'-3>
> }
> 
Thanks. Does exactly what I want.

Nick